Nintendo Switch owners have received some good news from the hardware and software giant this week, as the company outlines the first of its plans for the remarkably succesful console in 2018.

Earlier this week, Nintendo's Shinya Takahashi told IGN that the company is considering releasing new Joy-Con colours and designs for the console.

During the interview, Takahashi stated that one of the most notable upsides of the consoole is how players can experiment with various colour setups and designs for their console.

"One of the great strengths of the Nintendo Switch is that though you can play it as a console, you can also separate these two controllers from the hardware,” Takahashi said.

“This gives us a lot of possibilities that we could consider for the future in terms of what you could attach.

"I think that that would be a really good time for us to think about some very different colours or designs applied to [Joy-Con]. That might be interesting."

"There’s a lot of joy to be had from hand making something yourself or having all of those customisable possibilities, and we absolutely embrace that," he said. "We love to see that."

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This comes after a new job listing from the developers behind the Pokemon games could point to a distinctly different direction for the classic games.

The job listing from Creatures Inc. appears to show the UI for high-end game engine Unreal Engine 4 - which has been used to make games like Tekken 7, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Street Fighter V, Fortnite and more besides.

The engine is known for its versatility and compatibility with various platforms - including the Nintendo Switch.

If Creatures, Inc is moving away from its own engine and plans to make a new Pokemon game in Unreal, we could see more detail and better quality graphics than we've ever seen before in a Pokemon game.

We may also see the removal of the fixed camera that's been in the games since they launched back on the original Game Boy.

The job listing shows Unreal Engine 4 open beside an image of a high-polygon model of a Pikachu - another hint we could see high-resolution monsters in the next iteration of the franchise.

We've seen other Nintendo titles - such as the Yoshi game coming to Switch - developed in Unreal 4, so it wouldn't be a total surprise to see Pokemon migrate to that engine, too.

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Of course, this is all rumour at the moment.

There could be any number of reasons Creatures, Inc wants to hire an Unreal programmer - but it's still likely both Nintendo and Creatures, Inc wants to experiment with the options available for the first Pokemon Switch game.

With the continued success of Pokemon Go and the impressive sales of mainline Pokemon games on the Nintendo 3DS bolstering the IP, we're expecting Nintendo to put everything it's got into the first Switch Pokemon game to really leverage the impressive install-base the console has already managed to accrue.